Shade-roller appliance.



J. A. GASSE. SHADE ROLLER APPLIANCE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 1'7, 1911.

1,052,049. Patented Feb. 4, 1913.

JOSEPH AMEDIE GASSE, 0F BROCKTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

SHADE-ROLLER APPLIANCE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 4,1913.

Application filed. May 17, 1911. Serial No. 627,798.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH A. Gassn, a Canadian citizen, residing atBrockton, in the county of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Shade-Roller Appliances,of which the following is a specification.

It is the object of the present invention to provide a novel device foruse in connection with an ordinary window shade and its roller, toinsure of the shade being properly wound upon the roller.

It frequently happens that when a shade is being wound upon its roller,it will be wound tighter at one end of the roller than at the other, andas a consequence will not hang straight and will have its edges torn bythe roller supporting brackets. The present invention thereforecontemplates the provision of means preferably arranged at each end ofthe shade roller to bear frictionally against the shade as it is beingwound upon the roller, thereby rendering it certain that the shade willbe evenly wound at both ends of the roller and will at all times hangstraight.

For a full understanding of the invention reference is to be had to thefollowing description and accompanying drawings, in which:-

Figure 1 is a perspective view of one form of the invention embodyingthe present invention. Fig. 2 is a similar view illustrating a slightmodification. Fig. 3 is a similar view illustrating the inventionembodied in an extension window shade bracket. Fig. 4: is a view similarto Fig. 1 illustrating a further modification of the invention.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the followingdescription and indicated in all the views of the accompanying drawingsby the same reference characters.

The principles of my invention may find embodiment in numerous differentstructures, all, however, productive of the same results. In Fig. 1 ofthe drawings there is shown one form of the invention including, in itsstructure, an attaching leaf 1 designed to be secured by means of screwsor nails 2 to the frame of a window, near each end of the shade rollermounted therein, and having hinged thereto, as at 3, a leaf 4. A smallroller 5 is rotatably mounted at the free end of the leaf 4 and isdesigned to bear frictionally against that portion of a shade wound uponthe roller, and this shade engaging roller 5 may be of any suitablematerial and of any desired length and diameter. The leaves 1 and 4: areprovided, respectively, upon their adacent faces, with eyes 6 and 7, anda helical spring 8 is connected at its ends to the eyes and, when thedevice is in place, serves, by 1ts tension, to hold the leaf 1 with theroller 5 carried thereby, bearing frictionally and firmly against theportion of the shade wound upon the roller, the said shade beingindicated in the drawings by the reference character S and its roller bythe reference character R.

It will be readily understood by reference to Fig. 2 of the drawings,the principles of the invention may be embodied in the structure of ashade roller bracket, this bracket being indicated in the said figure bythe numeral 9, and having its attaching portion extended to form a leaf10 which corresponds in every particular with the leaf 1 of thepreviously described form of the invention. A helical spring 11 ismounted upon a hinge pin 12 connecting the leaf 10 and the leaf 13 (thelatter corresponding to the leaf 4- previously described), and serves tohold this leaf 13 with the roller 5 carried thereby, bearingfrictionally against the portion of a shade wound upon the rollermounted in the bracket 9. At this point it may be remarked that whereasin the first described form of the invention the spring 8 is connectedbetween the leaves 1 and 4:, this spring 8 in the said first describedform of the invention may be replaced by a spring such as the spring 11shown in the said Fig. 2.

It will be readily understood that the principles of the invention mayalso find embodiment in any ordinary extension roller curtain fixturessuch as illustrated in Fig. 3 0f the drawings.

In Fig. 4 of the drawings there is shown another form of the inventionconsisting of an attaching leaf 1a and a leaf 15 which is hinged theretoand carries a shade engaging roller 16. The spring, in this form of theinvention, however, is in the form of a leaf spring 17 secured at oneend to an upstanding portion 18 of the attaching leaf 14c, and bearingat its other end against the upper side of the hinged leaf 15. It is tobe understood that this structure, just described, may

be embodied in an ordinary single shade bracket such as shown in Fig. 2of the drawings, or in an extension bracket of any ordinary type, suchfor example, as that shown in Fig. 8 of the drawings.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is 1- 1. Ashade holder comprising brackets, a roller journaled therein, a shadearranged to wind thereon, and spring actuated leaves pivotally mountedand carrying journaled rollers the axes of which normally lie in thesame vertical plane as that in which the axis of the first mentionedroller lies, the last mentioned rollers bearing against the curtainwhereby the curtain may be wound upon and unwound from the firstmentioned roller.

2. A shade holder comprising brackets having leaves, a shade rollerjournaled in the brackets, spring actuated leaves hinged directly to theleaves of the brackets and carrying rollers disposed toward the shaderoller.

3. A shade holder comprising brackets having leaves which overlap eachother, means for adjustably securing the leaves of the bracketstogether, a shade roller journaled in the brackets, spring actuatedleaves hinged directly to the leaves of the brackets and carryingrollers disposed toward the shade roller.

In testimony whereof, I afliX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOSEPH AMEDIE GASSE.

Witnesses ANNABEL C. LYNCH, STEWART B. MoLEon.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents. Washington, D. C.

